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διορ-ύσσω , Att. διόρ-ττω ,
A.dig through, διὰ τάφρον ὀρύξας having dug a trench across or along, Od.21.120; τοῖχον δ., = τοιχωρυχέω, Hdt.9.37, cf. Ar.Pl. 565, Th.2.3, D.54.37; “δεσμωτήριον” Id.25.56; “οἰκίαν” X.Smp.4.30, PPetr.3p.60: c. acc. loci, “τὸν Ἄθω” Lys.2.29, cf. Pl.Lg.699a, D.6.30: —Pass., Ev.Matt.24.43.
2. metaph., undermine, ruin, D.45.30; “φιλίαν” Lib.Or.1.123; “δημοκρατίαν” Id.Decl.1.41:—Pass., “διορωρυγμένα δωροδοκίαις” Plu.Phoc.12, cf. Him.Ecl.5.6 (but to be entrenched in our several cities, D.9.28).
II. worm out, “ἀπόρρητα” Bato 6; “τὰ βουλευόμενα” Plu.2.87c.
III. Pass., to be shut up in a funeral vault, D.S.4.43.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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